Wordmasters blue division
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- didactic
- intended for instruction; instructive 2. inclined to teach
- exuberance
- effusively and almost uninhibitedly enthusiastic; lavishly abundant
- hyperbole
- obvious and intentional exaggeration.
- apprehensive
- uneasy or fearful about something that might happen 2. q uick to learn or understand.
- rhetorical
- used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect.
- irony
- a contrast between what appears to be true and what really is true
- apparatus
- any complex instrument or mechanism for a particular purpose.
- parable
- a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson. 2. a statement or comment that conveys a meaning indirectly by the use of comparison, analogy, or the like.
- pelt
- 1. the untanned hide or skin of an animal. 2. to throw (missiles). 3. to assail vigorously with words, questions 4. to hurry
- replicate
- to bend or fold back: a replicated leaf. to repeat, duplicate, or reproduce, esp. for experimental purposes.
- irate
- angry; enraged:
- executioner
- an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuance of a legal warrant.
- infer
- to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence:
- reflective
- . given to, marked by, or concerned with meditation or deliberation:
- dominion
- the power or right of governing and controlling; sovereign authority.
- liberal
- favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs. 2.free from prejudice or bigotry; tolerant:
- writhe
- 1. to twist the body about, or squirm, as in pain, violent effort, etc. 2. to shrink mentally, as in acute discomfort.
- extol
- to praise highly; laud; eulogize
- legend
- 1. a nonhistorical or unverifiable story handed down by tradition from earlier times and popularly accepted as historical. 2.a table on a map, chart, or the like, listing and explaining the symbols used.
- declarative
- serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
- simple sentence
- a sentence having only one clause, as I saw her the day before yesterday.
- onomatopoeia
- the formation of a word, as cuckoo or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
- solace
- to console; to soothe
- naive
- having or showing unaffected simplicity of nature or absence of artificiality; unsophisticated; ingenuous
- metaphor
- a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance
- horde
- a large group, multitude, number, etc.; a mass or crowd
- ominous
- portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious: an ominous bank of dark clouds. 2. having the significance of an omen.
- conservative
- disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change. 2. saving
- narrative voice
- the voice used to narrate a story or literary work
- wistful
- characterized by melancholy; longing; yearning.
- paternalistic
- A policy or practice of treating or governing people in a fatherly manner, especially by providing for their needs without giving them rights or responsibilities. 2. benevolent but sometimes intrusive
- foreshadow
- to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure
- lope
- to move or run with bounding steps, as a quadruped, or with a long, easy stride, as a person.
- compound sentence
- a sentence containing two or more coordinate independent clauses, usually joined by one or more conjunctions, but no dependent clause, as The lightning flashed (independent clause) and (conjunction) the rain fell (independent clause)
- rhapsodic
- extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic
- glade
- an open space in a forest.
- precocupied
- completely engrossed in thought; absorbed.
- flight of fancy
- An unrealistic idea or fantastic notion, a pipe dream.
- personification
- the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions,
- moderate
- 1.kept or keeping within reasonable or proper limits; not extreme, excessive, or intense: a moderate price. 2. of medium quantity, extent, or amount 3. calm or mild 4. to preside over or at 5. to become less violent, severe, intense, or rigorous
- vulnerable
- capable of or susceptible to being wounded or hurt, as by a weapon: 2. open to moral attack, criticism, temptation, etc.: